One Man, Two Lives Destroyed
Summary: AU She can think of many reasons to explain to her daughter why her fathers not around – just none of them are the truth. MCxMJ MMxRD JJxOC ADSxTC
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Chapter 18
Normal POV
She looked at the ground as she walked down the isle at the rehearsal wedding. They had moved the wedding a couple days back and the day that they were going to take Mark off of life support because of Mark's parents were unable to get to New York. She held her hands in front of her stomach and didn't dare to let her eyes gaze upon James. Her eyes stayed to the ground.
One, two, three, four…
"Maureen?" Her head shot up and she turned around to look at the source of the voice. "Maureen, it's me."
Who? Maureen thought to herself and then faced back to James and everybody else. They were all looking at her like she was crazy. She looked down at the ground again.
One, two, three, four, five-
"Maureen! Look at me!" Maureen whipped around again and looked at the door. Nobody was there, why was she hearing voices if nobody was there? She turned back around and looked at James who was shrugging to Roger who was standing next to him. Mimi gestured to Maureen to keep walking but she didn't. "I know you hear me."
No… She thought to herself, I don't hear you and I will never hear you. Go away whoever you are!
"Reen!"
She knew exactly who was calling her.
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"Maureen, are you alright?" Mimi questioned as she fanned Maureen's face. Maureen blinked a couple of times before her vision came in focus. "Mo?"
"What happened?" Maureen questioned as James squeezed her hand gently. She looked around at the people who had crowded around her. She sat up slowly and looked at Natasha who was still sitting with Mary-Grace in one of the pews. "What's going on?"
"I know you hear me."
Maureen covered her ears and shot up. She was running before she even knew it. She didn't know where her feet were taking her, but she knew that she had to get out of that church she had to get away before he haunted her even more. She looked around the streets and kept her ears covered.
"I love you. Come to me."
"What is going on? Why are you doing this to me? Why Mark why?" She yelled as she collapsed against a brick building. She buried her hands in the palms of her hand and then breathed in deeply. She quickly regained her strength and stood up. She started running again until she reached the hospital. She looked around the empty waiting room and then ran down one of the hallways towards his room. Everybody stared at her, but nobody even tried to stop her. They just let her run towards Mark's room. When she finally got there she noticed it was empty.
"What… Empty?" She questioned and turned around to see the nurse standing there shaking her head.
"I'm sorry Miss Johnson, but Mister Cohen is gone."
"Gone?" Maureen asked and the nurse took her hand and led her away from the empty room.
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"She couldn't have gone far." Angel said as she patted James gently on the back. They were walking around the streets of New York searching for Maureen, "Mo isn't that kinda of person."
"Where do you think she would wander off too?" James questioned and Mimi shrugged and wiped some tears from her eyes. She was holding Mary-Grace on one hip while holding Natasha's hand in the other.
"I hope she's alright." Mimi said and then smiled sadly at Natasha, "Are you alright honey?"
"Yeah, I'm used to this." Natasha said blankly and turned away from the group. She still held on to Mimi's hand though. Mimi shook her head and mouthed something to the rest of the group. They wandered farther and farther away from the hospital.
Natasha shook her head and used her free arm to warm up her shoulders. She didn't care where her mother was, she didn't want her to get married to James ever. She just wanted her old daddy back. She wanted to be a happy family with her mother and father and her sister Mary-Grace. She didn't want to live with James; she didn't want him as her father. She was sure that he would be the worst father in the whole wide world if that was possible.
"Can we go home Auntie?" Natasha questioned and Mimi looked at the rest of the group and they all nodded. "I don't want to look for Mom anymore."
"Natasha… I-"
"I want to go home." Mimi looked at Roger who smiled sadly and picked up Natasha. He joined hands with Mimi.
"We'll take them home babe, don't worry Angel, Sara, Collins, Joanne, and James can find Maureen." Roger said and looked at Natasha who was frowning at both of them.
"Alright, but only if it's alright with you guys." Mimi said and they all nodded.
"Yeah, we should just go look on our own. Without any C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N." Angel spelled out the word 'children' and Natasha twisted her face up in disgust.
"I can spell you know, so there is no point in doing that." She crossed her arms across her chest, "And you don't have to carry me Uncle, I can walk, I am ten years old now." Roger gently placed her on the ground and took her hand.
"Nat, what happened to you?" Mimi questioned softly and she just shrugged.
"I'm older, I changed, I don't care what you think about me." Natasha said and pulled at her uncle's hand. She walked faster and faster, just wanting to get home so she could cry her heart out there instead of in public. Mimi shook her head she missed the sweet and sensible Natasha, she didn't like this mean and grouchy one. There had to be a reason for why Natasha was acting this way and Mimi needed to know why.
"Nat, did Maureen tell you something that she's not telling us?" Mimi questioned and Natasha shook her head.
"It's family business."
"We are your family Nat."
"Not blood related." Mimi looked at Natasha in surprise; she had never said something like that before. Mimi bit her lip in order to not cry. Natasha kept walking like nothing had ever happened.
Mimi really wished that nothing had happened.
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Natasha wandered around the small apartment. She could hear every word that Roger and Mimi were saying; she just didn't want to say anything. She didn't want to point out that they were being too loud because she didn't want Mimi and Roger to drift away from here more then they already had.
"I just don't know what's gotten over her; Maureen would have told us something… But she's acting a little crazy herself." Mimi said and rested her hand on-top of Roger's, she was shaking, "I just don't know what to do."
Natasha leaned closer to the wall to hear what Roger was saying, "Mimi don't worry, everything's going to be alright. Natasha will snap out of this phase and everything will go back to normal."
"I hope that you are right, but I don't think that Natasha is just going to snap back from this 'phase'. This might take awhile; maybe it's about Maureen marrying James. Natasha might be upset about that and it's a perfectly reasonable explanation. I think that's it, I hope that that is the reason why she is acting so strangely." Mimi pressed a hand to one of her eyes, "I just want the sweet little Natasha back Rog, I would do anything to have her back."
"I know babe, but we can't just change her."
"I wish we could… I wish that Mark would wake up and we could all be a happy family together forever… Oh god, I just wish that we could go back to the day that Mark left and make him stay with us."
"I know, I know." Roger repeated and patted Mimi's shoulder with his free hand, "Mark will wake up and we'll be fine. Just wait and see."
Yeah right. Natasha thought to herself before she lifted herself off of the wall and walked towards her room.
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"God, that girl can run." Angel said as she fanned her self slightly, "I didn't know that Maureen could run this far." They were now walking around the other side of New York.
"I don't think she would run this far," Joanne said and rubbed her arms with her hands, "I think that she went someplace that we knew but we just didn't think about it hard enough. Honey, maybe you should go home. Mark is going to catch a cold."
"He came out of my body so I can decide what happens to him and what doesn't!" Sara snapped and held Mark closer to her body. She was still pretty moody from the birth of Mark. She was always yelling and got worried easily.
"Alright," Joanne said and they started walking back home.
"Wait!" Angel called out, "I think I know where she is."
"Where honey?" Collins questioned and Angel stuffed her hands in her pockets.
"She's at the hospital, she's visiting Mark."
End of Chapter 18
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